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Originally Posted by fjtorres
As the recent catfight proved, publishers take weeks to fulfill an order and if a store runs out of stock on a book they will likely lose the sale.
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The is only proved to Amazon fans. Here is a reminder of that the gyrations in Amazon's ship dates, during the Hachette battle, were too large and frequent to be explained by delivery experience:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=411
Such orders would normally go to distribution firms (Ingram, Baker & Taylor). So it wouldn't be surprising if Hachette had a slight difficulty fulfilling big orders sent to the wrong place, that place presumably being Hachette's digs on 6th Avenue (or did Amazon send to Paris?). But "not surprising" is miles from proven. And there's no evidence that Hachette did have a problem taking on the wholesaler role, if that's what Amazon asked of them.
AFAIK, Amazon spokespersons didn't claim its ship dates were based on examination of how long it took for an ordered book to arrive at the Amazon warehouse. I think your post is an example of what we used to call being more Catholic than the Pope, or, in this case, the Bezos family.